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“Evolutionary” is how the late Boston College historian Charles Donovan, SJ, described the approximately four-foot (diameter) tiled seal that serves as the University’s 150th anniversary logo. The mosaic was first laid in 1889, during the tenure of Robert Fulton, SJ, the University’s third (1870–80) and eighth (1888–91) president. It remained embedded in the floor of a first-story hallway at Boston College’s original Harrison Avenue building in the city’s South End until March 1991. Donovan called the seal “intermediate,” because it contains some but not all elements of the current design. In place are the interior shield, the crowns of St. Botolph’s Town (as Boston, England, was sometimes known, though that town’s shield featured three crowns), the three hills of Boston, and the open book. Still to be added, in the 20th century, would be the Jesuits’ seal (replacing IHS), text for the book (in Greek, the motto “Ever to Excel”), and a Latin scroll reading Religioni et Bonis Artibus (“To Religion and the Fine Arts”), near the base. In 1991, with plans afoot to convert the empty building to residential use (now known as Harrison Court, it houses Boston University medical students), the seal was removed to Chestnut Hill. It was installed in Fulton Hall during the renovation of 1995, on the floor in front of the elevator near the main entrance off the Quad. However, many students declined to tread on it, leading to flying leaps as the elevator doors opened. The seal was removed to the University’s warehouse in 2010. It will be inserted into a wall at a time and place yet to be determined.